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Friday, June 18, 2010

An Elegant Wedding - Cricut Style...

All this week the Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot has been presenting a "Wedding Affaire" The Design Team has come up with lots of inspirational wedding projects and there are some fabulous prizes to be won, including a Cricut Cake, a CGull bag and some of the wonderful Teresa Collins paper that we have been using for the wedding projects. Be sure to stop over to the Cuttlebug Challenge to see all of the great ideas and to find out about the giveaways.

I created a menu card and matching favor box & place card holder using Design Studio and the Straight From the Nest cartridge.

The centerpiece of both designs is this "corner" from the Straight From the Nest cartridge. I turned it to use the flat side to weld with a rectangle for both of my projects.

This is the menu card base cut from Core'dinations gemstone cardstock. I used "hide selected contour" to black out the butterfly image for the base.

This screen shot shows the hidden lines.

I wanted to layer butterflies with the lace cuts on the base, however, the butterfly images that are coordinating to this cut do not have that option - so I had to get a bit creative.

I chose the base butterfly from the cartridge. It has a lot of detail or webbing lines to help with the placement of additional layers. In order to eliminate these lines, I simply checked weld in the Shape Properties Box. Then I sized another copy of the corner arch to fit the butterfly and hid all of the lines except the cut outs I wanted to produce inside the butterfly. I aligned the two images and cut one butterfly in black and one in pink.

The base of the menu card is 5 x 7 inches. I cut a piece of the Teresa Collins paper we are featuring in these projects to 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches to make a mat for the menu.

I adhered the pink butterfly layer in the center, leaving the wings free to bend up a bit.

I added the black layer on top and used some pink pearls to accent the body of the butterfly.

The actual menu was set up as a 4 x 6 photo in my Creative Memories StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0 software. The fonts we used are Champignon for the script and Charis SIL for the block letters.

A menu card can be placed on the table for each guest and may be saved as a memento of the day (possibly ending up in a scrapbook!).

The favor box/place card is four inches x 2 inches x 2 inches which makes a nice size for adding candy inside. The names of the guests could be printed on matching cardstock and attached to the flat lids.

The box was cut from the black gemstone Core'dinations cardstock. To make sure I have a clean cut for intricate items like this topper, I usually do a multi cut of 2 times. This solves the snags that sometimes occur in tight corners and small sizes.

26 comments:

Congratulations. What a project. Thanks for the great tutorial on it. The menu card and favor box are so very nice. In a hurry, storms here and recovering from last nights trees down etc Glad to have internet today. I have truly enjoy this Wedding Affaire..great products. Thanks so much

OH MY GOSH! I LOVE this set. Diane! This is soooo pretty. I love the details and the elegant look. Any chance that you might share the cut files? There are no weddings in our immediate future, but Aaron (older son) has had the same sweet girlfriend for two years.... so maybe someday?

You did a beautiful job on the menu and box! I haven't given this cart - Straight From the Nest - much thought, but after seeing this might have to look into it!!! I love your work. Thanks for sharing the instructions and file.

Absolutely beautiful. Butterflies are my favorite. Would there be any way to make this project without Straight From the Nest Cartridge? I am just starting and don't have very many cartridges. I do have Sure Cuts a Lot and Cricut Design Studio, which I don't know much about. Thank you for sharing your great tutorial. bjm1952@gmail.com

This really is a fairly simple project - the cut from Straight From the Nest is what makes it special!

Bobbi - I think you could design something similar with other cartridges but the Straight From the Nest cartridge is full of nice designs for all sorts of occasions and you would probably get a lot of use from it. It is exclusive to HSN so it costs a bit more than you might be paying for some cartridges but you can just average out the cost across your cartridges to justify it to yourself!

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